Systems and methods to determine mobile edge deployment of microservices

A device comprising:

• a processor configured to execute instructions to:
• determine latency budgets for particular ones of a plurality of microservices for an application associated with a user equipment (UE) device, wherein the plurality of microservices are deployed in a cloud computing center;
• determine that a measured latency for a particular microservice, of the plurality of microservices, has exceeded a latency budget for the particular microservice by at least a latency budget threshold while the particular microservice is deployed in the cloud computing center, wherein the measured latency is based on a measured network latency for the particular microservice and a measured computation time for the particular microservice;
• determine that deploying the particular microservice on a Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) network associated with a base station servicing the UE device, reduces the measured latency for the particular microservice to be within the latency budget for the particular microservice, wherein, when determining that deploying the particular microservice on the MEC network reduces the measured latency for the particular microservice to be within the latency budget for the particular microservice, the processor is further configured to:
• determine a latency difference between a latency associated with the cloud computing center and a latency associated with the MEC network;
• and
• determine that the latency difference is greater than an amount by which the latency budget for the particular microservice has been exceeded;
• deploy the particular microservice on the MEC network, based on determining that deploying the particular microservice on the MEC network reduces the measured latency for the particular microservice to be within the latency budget for the particular microservice;
• and
• send a recommendation to the UE device to use the particular microservice deployed at the MEC network.

A non-transitory computer-readable memory device storing instructions executable by a processor, the non-transitory computer-readable memory device comprising:

• one or more instructions to determine latency budgets for particular ones of a plurality of microservices for an application associated with a user equipment (UE) device, wherein the plurality of microservices are deployed in a cloud computing center;
• one or more instructions to determine that a measured latency for a particular microservice, of the plurality of microservices, has exceeded a latency budget for the particular microservice by at least a latency budget threshold while the particular microservice is deployed in the cloud computing center, wherein the measured latency is based on a measured network latency for the particular microservice and a measured computation time for the particular microservice;
• one or more instructions to determine that deploying the particular microservice on a Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) network associated with a base station servicing the UE device, reduces the measured latency for the particular microservice to be within the latency budget for the particular microservice, wherein the one or more instructions to determine that deploying the particular microservice on the MEC network reduces the measured latency for the particular microservice to be within the latency budget for the particular microservice includes:
• one or more instructions to determine a latency difference between a latency associated with the cloud computing center and a latency associated with the MEC network;
• and
• one or more instructions to determine that the latency difference is greater than an amount by which the latency budget for the particular microservice has been exceeded;
• one or more instructions to deploy the particular microservice on the MEC network, based on determining that deploying the particular microservice on the MEC network reduces the measured latency for the particular microservice to be within the latency budget for the particular microservice;
• and
• one or more instructions to send a recommendation to the UE device to use the particular microservice deployed at the MEC network.